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Amazon’s Launching A Program To Sell Fanfic. Yeah, You Read That Right.

by Rebecca Pahle | 11:19 am, May 22nd, 2013

Not just any old fanfic. Your Star Trek/Supernatural crossover high school AU won’t earn you any dough quite yet. But with a new program called Kindle Worlds writers in certain fandoms, with more to come, will be able to publish their fic on Amazon. And earn royalties. Completely legally.

There is no gif that can express what my brain is doing right now. In text form, it’s “??!??!?!!?!?!?.”

That Young Wonder Woman TV Show Is Being “Redeveloped”

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:00 pm, May 16th, 2013

When we first heard there was going to be another attempt at a Wonder Woman television show after the failed attempt that was David E. Kelley’s pilot, we were shocked. We got as far as character descriptions and even a few actors’ names being thrown in the ring to play Princess Diana but then came a pause, one we hoped didn’t mean the end of the project. Thankfully, we can now report the series, titled Amazon, is still being worked on.

If This Lawsuit Succeeds, It Could Break Amazon’s Dominance of the eBook Market

by Susana Polo | 11:46 am, February 21st, 2013

The new and growing market for eBooks has allowed companies to call into question some of the basic and universal characteristics of reading and owning books. That you can loan them to your friends, for example, or that by purchasing a book you’re also purchasing the ability to read it whenever you want, wherever you want, until you lose it, donate it, give it away, or wear through its well-loved spine.

eBook publishers have, to put it mildly, established that these are qualities of a book that they do not intend to carry over to the new format, which is to a certain extent fine, so long as consumers know what they’re getting into. But the eBook market also has other problems, namely accusations of price fixing, and, due to the combination of software that limits the kind of device a given eBook can be read on and the dominance of the Kindle over the eReader market, bullying tactics. A new lawsuit filed by three independent bookstores is looking to strike at the heart of the problem: the insistance of eReader makers that their books should not be readable on other devices.

Amazon, Latest Attempt at Wonder Woman Show, Gets Pushed Back

by Susana Polo | 4:14 pm, January 28th, 2013

Okay, so Amazon isn’t dead. But the CW just announced the eight new pilots it’ll be producing this season, and according to Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva, the putative Wonder Woman show is not among them.

The Zombieland TV Show is in the Hands of Amazon.com

by Susana Polo | 2:45 pm, January 22nd, 2013

Streaming digital video services like Netflix and Amazon Instant Video are on the forefront of what is widely considered (at least by folks with solid internet connections) to be the future of television and home video. Unfortunately it’s a nebulous place where, for example, the desires of those that Netflix needs to partner with in order for their service to be relevant have actively opposed interests (like wanting to sell expensive DVD box sets of television series season by season). And in its competition with Netflix to be the go to place to watch cable television shows online, it looks like Amazon may be stepping up its game into an arena that only Netflix had so far occupied: producing original content.

Being Human Actress Up For Wonder Woman Role In CW’s Amazon

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:44 am, January 16th, 2013

Late last year we learned The CW was starting to look for an actress to take on the iconic Wonder Woman show for their series Amazon. We finally have at least one name to throw out there and it’s someone genre fans may be familiar with. Being Human UK’s Amy Manson.

Things We Saw Today: Women of the Whedonverse T-Shirt

by Rebecca Pahle | 4:58 pm, December 27th, 2012

You can buy the t-shirt, by illustrator Tom Trager, at RedBubble. (via Fashionably Geek)

UPDATED: The CW Has Begun Casting For Their Young Wonder Woman Series And…They’ve Changed Her Name

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:01 am, November 30th, 2012

Even though we’re pretty jaded when it comes to Wonder Woman film or television projects, we were hopeful at the prospect of the CW making plans to produce a new series that would feature a young Princess Diana. Some new details about the show, titled Amazon, have surfaced including casting details and the character description of its lead – Iris. Wait? Who? Yeah, they’re calling Wonder Woman Iris.

Amazon Now Offering $7.99 Monthly Prime Option Similar To Netflix/Hulu

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:00 pm, November 6th, 2012

My household recently signed up for Amazon Prime (mostly for The West Wing) and have been exceedingly happy with it. Not only does their streaming service offer shows Netflix doesn’t, the free two-day shipping came in handy while ordering last minute cosplay items for New York Comic Con this year. It seems they’ve decided to try a new tactic to gain customers. Much like Netflix and Hulu, Amazon will now offer a $7.99 monthly option which includes everything the $79 yearly subscription does. Sound good? Maybe, maybe not. That comes out to $95.88 a year.

This is Not A Drill: The CW Is Developing A Young Wonder Woman Show

by Susana Polo | 5:50 pm, September 6th, 2012

If someone was thinking about making a Wonder Woman show, you would want to know, right? No matter how many times we’ve been burned? No matter how early in the production it is? No matter if it’s just a concept and not a script?

Yeah. I know. I’d want to know too.

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